The vision of Paris-in-the-Spring, the center of eternal beauty, culture, and love, submerges in the reality of Black Parisians celebrating the day of liberation from the Nazis.
Liberté, égalité et fraternité does not apply to the transplants from colonial France. A Martinique-born woman of French/African descent confides in her American ex-pat friend, dubbed the new Josephine Baker, as she schemes to protect her son and daughter from unsuitable love matches, adultery, an unwanted pregnancy, and murder framed as a suicide.